Bug 729705

Summary:	powertop crashing when window is resized
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Richard Marko <rmarko>
Component:	powertop	Assignee:	Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.1	CC:	ddumas, jberan, pmuller
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Description Richard Marko 2011-08-10 15:15:21 UTC

Description of problem:
The new version of powertop patched to handle window resizing crashes (segfaults) randomly when resized.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
powertop-1.11-5.el6

How reproducible:
Always (time to crash differs each run)


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run powertop
2. resize window


Actual results:
Segfault


Expected results:
Running powertop


Additional info:
memory corruption - core dumps contains different backtraces.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-08-10 15:57:52 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Škarvada 2011-08-16 20:54:25 UTC

It is related to bug 698422, I will track it there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698422 ***